Reheating cold topics (in networking)

It has been proposed that research in certain areas is to be avoided when those areas have gone cold. While previous work concentrated on detecting the temperature of a research topic, this work addresses the question of changing the temperature of said topics. We make suggestions for a set of techniques to re-heat a topic that has gone cold. In contrast to other researchers who propose uncertain approaches involving creativity, @lateral thinking and imagination, we concern ourselves with deterministic approaches that are guaranteed to yield results1.